Twinspots goby

[saltwater84]

hi, I was looking for goby to be put in my 5 gals tank and was thinking about a twinspots goby. I previously own one and really liked it, but it died, actually it myerstery disappeared in my 20gals tank. At that time, I only have him, a arrow head crab and some corals, I don't know what had killed him. All I found left of him was his bottom pretty black fin. He was doing fine before he disappeared. Anyways, I was thinking about getting another one for my 5gals, recommend tank size on liveaquaria is 10gals, but I believe he should do fine in a 5gals alone or maybe with 1 clownfish and a anomene. I am afraid that he might died again.
My questions are: Does carpet anomene eats twinspots goby? What type of food does a twinspots goby eats? Is it hard to feed him?

 

[wayne]

If it mystery disappeared in a 20 with an arrow crab, I would blame the arrow crab.
Q1 - yes, carpets will eat stupid gobies that wander into range. Which will happen eventually, and probably quite quickly ina 5.
Q2 - not sure, quite a lot of 'easy' gobies are micropredators that can be a bit tricky to get on prepared foods, but as they take a few months to starve to death no one notices

 

[S.Reef]

They need to be kept in pairs in order to do well. Single ones will just mysteriously die if kept by themselves...kind of strange.

 

[saltwater84]

How come if kept by one he or she mysteriously disappear? Do you have to get one female and male inorder for them not to fight?

 

[S.Reef]

You just need two, it doesnt really matter what the sex is. They get stressed if they dont have another in the tank and eventually die.

 

[saltwater84]

Thank you for your advice, I appreciate it. I'll get two.